What happened to Ethelred the Unready?
In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. … Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn’s death in 1014, but died himself in 1016. Why was Aethelred called the Unready? He was an ineffectual ruler who failed to prevent the Danes from overrunning England. The epithet “unready” is derived…